Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport officials are pushing for an early July finish for its first parking garage, and they said they’re ready to start collecting money from users of the 1,300-space deck.
“All the different trades are working,” said Terry Hart, the airport’s chief executive, last week about the $25 million garage on which construction began just over a year ago in front of the passenger terminal.
Hart said the four-level garage’s bottom floor will be used for rental cars as the vehicles shift across the terminal exit road to the deck.
A pedestrian connector passes over the exit between the garage’s second level and the terminal’s baggage claim area, he said.
While most of the concrete work on the garage is done, stairs and elevators are going in, Hart said. Also, workers still need to pull fiber from the terminal to the garage to operate rental and other booths in the deck, he said.